Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard and placing his shots well to beat Lacy Keesler, to whom he lost down south in the first Davidson match. Rauh also played the lines beautifully to upset John Bremer, who had beaten him previously. French, Bossart, and Goodman in the doubles all showed perfect form on their overhead smashes to drop their opponents...
...other two prowling north, past the moonlit hulks of three wrecked U.N. tanks. In a group of medics behind the skirmish line, Corporal Donald Reddick of Portland, Tenn., carrying a litter, had just slithered off the end of a paddy dike when the Chinese opened fire. Rifle bullets snapped overhead and then the enemy charged out of the dike shadows, throwing grenades. One exploded near Reddick, smashed his right knee. "I'm hit!" he shouted. The man next to him said, "Me too," but added quickly: "It was just my goddam canteen." Later a lieutenant reached Reddick, applied...
...bird watcher." When he finally spotted the YB-60 in flight he could only swear; it was too late to make his last edition, and the morning Star-Telegram, also owned by Carter, would get the break on the story. Then, in a flight of B-36s hovering high overhead, Cain saw something odd. One of the B-36s let something drop. It shot away so fast that it was obviously either a rocket or jet fighter...
...Like Ike." At several stops along the Taft route, a plane flew overhead towing a crimson banner which said: "Welcome, Senator, but We Like Ike." The Eisenhower state headquarters insisted this was the work of an individual Ike fan, not an organization maneuver. But by this week the Eisenhower forces were beginning their maneuvers in earnest. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Ike's national campaign manager, was coming home for some speeches. Others on the speaking schedule: Representative Christian Herter, an Eisenhower candidate for delegate; Ike strategist Paul Hoffman; Minnesota's Representative Walter Judd...
...level of the new building, Lever House, is given over to a parklike complex of garden and patio, open to the air and open to the casual stroller, while the building itself, a starkly modern, $6,000,000, 24-story, glass-encased monument to the soap industry, rises delicately overhead on stainless steel columns. The net effect is one of jet-propelled urgency held thankfully and restfully...